Establishing of municipal social enterprises has become a popular tool of support for people with low qualification or education as well as tool of the local or regional development. Experiences from abroad show that the municipal enterprises are often the only relevant source for the local development. Social enterprises include more benefits for the engaged actors: education of employees, support for their skills development, support for the community development and overall development of the locality. Despite the high level of interest from the side of Slovak municipalities, there did not exist structure for providing education and skills needed for managing social enterprises. The situation was alike in the Czech Republic. From the above-mentioned situation raised the need to create a more systematic training program. The main output of the project activities was development of the training program which was offered to municipalities, as well as to wider range of stakeholders in the area of social economy. The aim of the training program was to strengthen the entrepreneurial thinking in the municipalities leading to sustainability and independence on public resources. The content of the project:- to develop accredited training program of municipal social entrepreneurship - to create a freely accessible database of information about the municipal social entrepreneurship as a mean of strengthening of the capacities for people with low education or qualification background- to empower entrepreneurial skills and way of thinking in 70 municipalities The curricula of the training program had been co-created by all the partner organizations and applied on 12 seminars (in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Poland). Overall 245 participants enrolled the program, which exceeded the original expectations of the project more than three times. The freely accessible online training program is the first platform in Slovakia providing all the information needed for the successful establishment of the municipal social enterprise. The most important impact of the project is development and practical use of this tool contributing to employment and employability of the disadvantaged people. In addition to this, we have been successful to spread the impact of the project into the legislative environment as well. Three of the lectors of the training seminars in Slovakia were simultaneously part of the expert team for drafting Law on Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship at Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic. Thanks to training seminars organized in different regions, we could identify barriers obstructing successful establishing of social enterprises. The findings were transferred to the proposed Law on Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship.Transnational aspect of the project enabled to share the good practice examples from various contexts and countries. The project activities were realized in consortia of five partnering countries: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia and Scotland. All the engaged organizations are active in the area of the social economy.

The European Commission launched many initiatives in the last few years for the development of Accessible Tourism, in order to increase the awareness and availability of accessible destinations and products across Europe. Its latest products, the studies on Demand, Training and Supply, describe a situation where a lot of steps forward have been completed but which is still lacking in homogeneity, in a more widespread availability of accessible destinations and offers and in their managerial quality.In particular, the capacity of existing training offer to reach the final users, businesses and public bodies, still deserves a wider attention and efforts to make the EC investments profitable in terms of increased quality and managerial capacity by SMEs operating in the tourism sector.APP TOUR YOU aimed at qualifying human resources in the tourism sector by designing and developing multi-facet training tools on accessibility issues, addressed and tailored to tourism SMEs. Besides a basic knowledge of the tourism for all topic, these training tools aim at providing workers in the tourism sector with the skills needed to correctly describe the characteristics of usability of their premises and services by tourists with specific needs, through a full understanding of the Design for All concepts and the use of self-assessment tools. This expertise meets one of the major critical issues of people with disability when travelling: the availability of reliable, verified and update information on the usability of their destination offer from the point of view of all possible tourism activities to be performed there.These skills are particularly important for SMEs, which represent the group of tourism offer with major appeal for tourist with average spending capability. Thanks to training tools developed by the project, they will be able to be visible on the web, with a reliable description of their offer, reaching a target whom they are normally overlooking as they feel not experienced enough to be able to cater for them properly.To reach its objectives the project will develop the following main activities:- implementation of a blended training course to train 16 operators of tourism SMEs to become facilitators in the field of tourism for all and accessibility assessments. On the basis of a defined training path and with the support of a produced training kit, the 16 operators were trained online on the basic principles of tourism for all and face-to face on how to collect and provide information on the characteristics of usability of tourism facilities by people with specific needs.- design and production of a self-learning mobile and web application to help tourism operators to make a self-assessment of their facilities and to give back the gathered information. The App has been designed and developed through a bottom up approach, with the help of the tourism operators trained in the blended course.- design and definition of the training path and kit of a Massive Open Online Course for the qualification of hospitality workers in the field of accessibility, with a focus on the collection and release of information on the usability of tourism facilities by tourists with specific needs. Also the design of the MOOC training kit followed a bottom up approach, with the involvement of the tourism operators trained in the blended course.- testing of the Massive Open Online Course on tourism accessibility, services assessment and information which involved lot more than the expected 250 managers and staff of EU tourism SMEs (around 700) who have been assisted, during the course, by the tourism operators trained to become MOOC facilitators. The MOOC was supported by an open highly interactive platform hosted in the project’s website www.apptouryou.eu/mooc, where the trainees had the possibility to dialogue with their peers and with partners’ experts.- production of a Manual of sustainability and replicability of the MOOC to allow the transferability of the project training tools and experiences both to other EU countries and to other stakeholders in the different categories of the tourism service chain.- dissemination and exploitation of the MOOC and the main project results through conferences in the partner countries, newsletters, social media, etc.In order to broaden its impacts and extend its benefits over time, all materials produced and used by APP TOUR YOU are open and available in the project website as means to produce quality information on accessibility to be put in the European Directory of Accessible Tourism PANTOU (www.pantou.org). Moreover, after the end of the project, partners will continue to host the MOOC structure to be reused in a “connectivist form” (without trainers and webinars but sharing materials, comments, blogs and experience) by interested stakeholders: groups of self-gathered learners, international networks, local public institutions.